If you are a merchant considering an affiliate program as a part of your marketing program or a publisher considering a way to optimize your revenue potential you won’t want to miss Aunesty Janssen and Shawna Fennell talk about affiliate programs on WSRadio.com ’s Yahoo Store Power Hour.

According to Aunesty merchants should  be ready to spend 20-25% of their revenue on their affiliate program. You will need to know your numbers and your profit management. And expect 6- 12 months before you start seeing results.

Learn what an affiliate program is, how to start one, and how to run your affiliate program.

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This affiliate marketing  podcast is like having an affiliate coach in your back pocket. Listen to one of the internet’s top affiliate managers and learn the information you need to know before you launch your affiliate program.

As an affiliate you need to learn about affiliate parasites to protect your commissions. You work hard to bring quality visitors to your website. An Affilaite parasite will write over the cookies set on your website with their own cookies to steal your hard earned affiliate commissions. Hiding your affiliate links will not necessarily prevent the theft of your affiliate commissions by an affiliate parasite. Hiding your affiliate links may help but to prevent affiliate commission theft you need to ensure you only promote parasite free programs,

So how do these parasites work ? You can watch an example HERE.

Pop ups (adware) and toolbars are the two most common affiliate commission predators.

If you haven’t already you should subscribe to Benjamin Edelman’s  feed to learn what providers and companies you should be keeping an eye on.

As a Merchant, establishing your company as a reputable affiliate merchant to your potential affiliates is critical. The risk you take by using a network that is not parasite free may easily result in the failure of your affiliate program and the tarnishing of yoru company;s reputation. If you plan to generate a reliable consistent revenue stream based on affiliate partner sales you need to know the concerns your affiliate’s have with affiliate parasites and take the steps needed to protect their commissions.

Share a Sale is a parasite free Affiliate Network and if you are considering an affiliate program, its the first network you shoudl be checking out.

Additional Information on affialite parasites:

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Affilaite Marketing Forums

It is with great enjoyment I announce I will be assisting Jennifer Tankersley of ListPlanIt.com (also known as the List Mamma from List Mama Blog), with reviewing the List Plan It website service, marketing, and affiliate program.

List Plan It provides access to over 300 ready-made, ready-to-fill-in-lists, with more being added each month. ListPlanIt.com was created was to be a one-stop resource for lists and planning pages. If you are like most other listmakers, then you probably value continuity. You probably want your lists to look uniform and neat. You very likely wanted lists that you could type into to keep them uncluttered. Purchasing lists from ListPlanIt.com means you don’t have to reinvent the wheel! All you have to do is fill in your own information.

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